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A modern classic now available from Grove Press, Being There is one of the most popular and significant works from a writer of international stature. It is the story of Chauncey Gardiner - Chance, an enigmatic but distinguished man who emerges from nowhere to become an heir to the throne of a Wall Street tycoon, a presidential policy adviser, and a media icon. Truly "a man without qualities," Chance's straightforward responses to popular concerns are heralded as visionary. But though everyone is quoting him, no one is sure what he's really saying. And filling in the blanks in his background proves impossible. Being There is a brilliantly satiric look at the unreality of American media culture that is, if anything, more trenchant now than ever.
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Be Here. Now........2007-10-03
When humans are not "talking past" one another, they're busy trying to "read" the other person or figure an entranceway for their own personal agenda. Rather than developing a genuine appreciation of another - requiring time and effort - too many of us are already mentally asking, "What can (identity) do for me?" In a culture keyed to instant gratification and focus groups, who has time to cultivate a genuine understanding of someone else on this planet?
"Being There" presents us with a human being who enjoys the serenity of knowing who he is and living in the moment. His conversations are factual and honest, his dealings with the self-absorbed are courteous to a fault and his approach to interpersonal relations is camera-like, taking in as much of someone as possible and trying to fathom "the complete picture". Where politicians try to separate a candidate from his negatives, Chauncey seeks to imbue the famous he meets with as many characteristics as he can discern - not ascribe notions to them, but simply capture the whole of their personality to take their "full measure". And he attempts to do so despite his limited mental capacity.
When Chauncey strolls into the garden at the end of this odyssey, he's at peace. The colors, sights and sounds of the world's natural state surround him, and he is at one with them. It's connectedness, being "in the zone", and few of his more "gifted" contemporaries could ever appreciate what he has discovered.
This is a thoughtful little book that rolls around in the back of your mind.
Chance thinks.......2007-09-19
Loved the movie so thought I would read the book. The book is different in several respects of course. Chance thinks in the book in ways that can be only hypothesized in the movie. He knows how to use the phone and elevator. He knows to say he does not drink. Also note that the sexual observations are much more descriptive - perhaps necessarily so in the book. But in each of these cases I feel the description takes away some of the effect of the movie. All in all, while the plot remains the same the movie seems to me to be the better of the two. The book is a good read none the less. It is light and a good bed book. It reads fast and makes for an interesting comparison with the movie.
Wonderful, light read.......2007-01-16
Simply a wonderful book b/c it brings you into the mind of a simple, friendly person who brings happiness to all around him. Don't watch the movie.
quick short read.......2006-07-14
Our book discussion group read this book and we all felt that it a pretty good story. The ending was disappointing but after discussing further, was appropriate. This is a quick read book and can be read in about 4-5 hours.
Being Here.......2006-05-06
After watching the film several times over the years -- but before reading the book -- I concluded that Being There was a prime candidate for one of the rare instances in which the cinematic version of a story was superior to the literature it was based on. The story is so simple and so much of it is communicated by expressions, gestures, and tone of voice that it seemed unlikely that the written word would be up to the task.
Instead, finally reading this thin but ambitious effort showed me again that good writing trumps good cinema almost every time.
To be sure, the film is good cinema. And the talented duo of Peter Sellers and Shirley McLean are so convincing in their silver screen roles that it is hard to imagine the characters they portray looking and sounding any different than the way they were played in the film (my effort to disassociate them from the story wasn't helped by the fact that my edition of the book has Mr. Sellers larger than life on its cover).
Yet the book takes the story to another level. Chance, the main character, is still a fortunate simpleton, But in the book author Jerzy Kosinski can reveal what is happening in his head, the swirling and disconcerting mystery that even the most obvious events seem to someone like him. These passages add an unexpected depth and darkness to the story, which is without most of the comic relief so prominent in the film.
The end result is a book that isn't the wry comedy with precision timing I expected after knowing the film so well but rather a biting and trenchant satire about the culture of modern media, politics, and business, and of the gullible nature of a people far too eager to follow anyone they think may be willing to lead.
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Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again
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Brain, body, and world are united in a complex dance of circular causation and extended computational activity. In Being There, Andy Clark weaves these several threads into a pleasing whole and goes on to address foundational questions concerning the new tools and techniques needed to make sense of the emerging sciences of the embodied mind. Clark brings together ideas and techniques from robotics, neuroscience, infant psychology, and artificial intelligence. He addresses a broad range of adaptive behaviors, from cockroach locomotion to the role of linguistic artifacts in higher-level thought.
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Great reading on the Mind-Body problem.......2003-04-04
Andy Clark provides us with a new framework for thinking about the mind. Gone are the old notions of a clean boundary between the thinker and the world. Clark does a great job of making the point that our brains are essentially embodied agents that profit profoundly from the local environmental structure. He introduces this new movement in cognitive science to study the brain, body, and world together as a complex system of interactions and dependencies and calls for a cognitive science of the embodied mind.
Clark is not proposing a radical idea. In fact, he defends at some length that his work is in fact a solution to the radical ideas that currently dominate the field. Clark suggests refining the tools of study used, and finding a middle ground between competing theories. I personally question whether a middle ground is appropriate in science. When anomalies exist in current models, does it serve us well to take the best of all available theories and smooth them together as Clark does? Perhaps in the case of the brain, this is a good idea, even though many other sciences (like physics) fair better with simpler one-size-fits-all solutions. Due to the brain's complexity unmatched anywhere in the known universe, maybe a simple (radical) way of studying it isn't possible (or at least within human capabilities).
Clark certainly builds a strong case, particularly by applying examples and comparisons throughout the book. His ideas are well thought out, his writing is clear (though perhaps a little repetitive), and the book as a whole is well worth reading.
Being There definitely gets you thinking.
A New Approach to Philosophy of Mind.......2000-07-12
For those dissatisfied with both dualism and West Coast eliminative materialism, Andy Clark's philosophy of mind offers readers an alternative: an embodied mind. Here's a philosophy that embeds the human mind in its environment, its culture, and its history. And and author who writes like a dream! For a revitalized philosophy of mind, read it together with Alicia Juarrero's Dynamics in Action: Intentional Behavior as a Complex System and Merlin Donald's Origins of the Modern Mind!Enjoy!
A new conceptual framework in the offing.......2000-04-12
When read in tandem with Paul Cilliers Complexity and Postmodernism, and Alicia Juarrero's Dynamics in Action, Andy Clark's Being There articulates the outline of a new philosophical framework: one which takes complexity, embodiment, history and context seriously. Kudos!
probably the most readable and reasonable book on mind-body.......1998-10-18
Clark develops in a very clear way the main threads of contemporary mind-body research. He argues for a non-dogmatic approach to the very difficult questions that epistemology, brain research and artificial life have put in the last twenty years. His position is with those who are not trying to explain everything from a single source or with single set of tools. Not reductionism, not holism or not only emergence or cognitivism or connectionism. Still, he sees the advantages of each theory and he gives a very subtle and insightful overview of what each strand has to contribute. I have read maybe twenty books on the subject in the past few months, from Varela to Jackendorf and from Minsky to Harré, but only Clark seems to be able to make the field transparent and coherent. If he sometimes loses in boldness, he certainly wins in promise. A book that should become a compulsary reading for anyone who wants to be introduced in the field.
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A timely study of change in a complex environment, Where There Are Mountains explores the relationship between human inhabitants of the southern Appalachians and their environment. Incorporating a wide variety of disciplines in the natural and social sciences, the study draws information from several viewpoints and spans more than four hundred years of geological, ecological, anthropological, and historical development in the Appalachian region. The book begins with a description of the indigenous Mississippian culture in 1500 and ends with the destructive effects of industrial logging and dam building during the first three decades of the twentieth century.
Donald Edward Davis discusses the degradation of the southern Appalachians on a number of levels, from the general effects of settlement and industry to the extinction of the American chestnut due to blight and logging in the early 1900s. This portrait of environmental destruction is echoed by the human struggle to survive in one of our nation's poorest areas. The farming, livestock raising, dam building, and pearl and logging industries that have gradually destroyed this region have also been the livelihood of the Appalachian people. The author explores the sometimes conflicting needs of humans and nature in the mountains while presenting impressive and comprehensive research on the increasingly threatened environment of the southern Appalachians.
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Trees hugged but not too tightly.......2006-10-30
I purchased 'Where There are Mountains' because it was cited so often by John Finger in his 'Tennessee Frontiers.'
(Note: Amazon's list of books that cite 'Where There are Mountains' misses 'Tennessee Frontiers.')
I was then disheartened, upon opening Donald Davis' book, to find him writing warmly of his time spent with Jeremy Rifkin, the enviro-alarmist. Fortunately, 'Where There are Mountains' is more professional and scholarly than anyone would expect from a Rifkin admirer. Still . . .
. . . the tone of regret that humans ever intruded into the Southern Appalachians forms a background hum throughout Davis' pages. The hum becomes louder when he writes about the Tennessee Valley Authority. Davis is not so savage toward the TVA as some Southern tree-huggers, but he fails to find any good words to say about it. It's true TVA was bad for the smallmouth bass (something Davis does not mention), but it was great for the humans.
Still, while I can quibble about many particular matters and regret that Davis missed some opportunities, this book is worth reading. It is a fair statement of the big picture during the past 400 years, though it leaves out a lot. That must be inevitable in a book of only 214 pages that tries to cover so much ground.
The extensive bibliography is also a plus.
Where there are Mountains.......2000-06-02
This is perhaps the best book that I have read on environmental history. Davis contends that the Southern Appalachian Mountains have been raped, robbed, and pillaged for centuries and casts new light on a largely ignored subject. The strengths of the work are Davis' illustrations of the cultural and environmental developments that have occurred in southern Appalachia from an interdisciplinary approach. The work is well-written and Davis displays an excellent knowledge of the literature using both primary and secondary sources. The sources are current and the bibliography is a useful tool for scholars wanting to do further work in Appalachia. Most scholars who have written on Appalachia have largely ignored Native Americans but Davis has shown in the same manner as William Cronan (Changes in the Land) and Alfred Crosby (The Columbian Exchange) in other areas of America, the consequences that European explorers had on Native American populations. Davis certainly executes and conveys with a skill understanding of the precontact environment, ecology, and landscape for the reader. This book could be used in history courses, folklore, Appalachian studies, sociology/anthropology, and a host of other classes. Also, it is written so well it is good for just general reading. This is a powerful, forceful, well-organized, and convincing work.
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Millions of infants and toddlers are being deprived of nurturing care due to both parents working and the frequent changing of primary caregivers.This problem has now reached epodemic proportions. The book takes an objective look at this issue, suggests practical solutions, and reveals facts and concerns that parents need to hear.
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Great book on the benefits of staying home with your kids.......2001-09-26
The book go on saying how important for a child to have a constistant caregiver. Not only that but how important it is for parents to spend time with their kids.
The TRUTH about "quality time".......2000-02-22
Thank you, Dr. Fox, for finally being courageous enough to expose the myth of "quality time." For so long, researchers and physicians have known that attachment parenting is the ideal situation for infants and children, but, haven't disseminated this information in the mainstream. Dr. Fox recognizes the reality that for some parents, e.g. single parents or the working poor, working is a necessity. But for many millions of parents, generally mothers, working provides an opportunity for intellectual stimulation, career growth, or to afford the luxury of a lifestyle maintained previous to having children. Dr. Fox encourages parents to understand the value of investing in our children (shouldn't this outweigh the value of investing in a career while our children are young?) and offers many valuable tips on how to financially manage with only one income. Furthermore, she offers extensive research on the ramifcations of inconsistent childcare and insecure bonding with parents. The studies on what happens to our kids when we don't give them our time are quite clear and it isn't positive. Thank you, Dr. Fox, for speaking up.
Puts the focus where it belongs; on true needs of children.......1998-11-29
The author demonstrates the process of bonding that occurs between mother and child during the first year and how this affects future well-being. Author explains the necessity for security of bonding between child and one trusted person; not just any person, the parent. Author shows the vital, major difference between parental care and care by other loving adults. Especially convincing: even the "best" day-care centers present children with an ever-changing array of caregivers, preventing the most important task of a child; developing trust and bonding. Details the damage done by "caregiver roulette." Author explains how bonding is the most important aspect of early childhood development, not intellectual stimulation. However, early bonding improves future learning in school. The only weakness of this book is that the author focuses mostly on the impact of non-parental care for babies and toddlers with little emphasis on the ramifications for older children and teenagers. The reader will be convinced that caring for one's own child is the most important career a mother or father can pursue, and that there is no comparable substitute.
Puts the focus where it belongs; on true needs of children.......1998-11-29
The author demonstrates the process of bonding that occurs between mother and child during the first year and how this affects future well-being. Author explains the necessity for security of bonding between child and one trusted person; not just any person, the parent. Author shows the vital, major difference between parental care and care by other loving adults. Especially convincing: even the "best" day-care centers present children with an ever-changing array of caregivers, preventing the most important task of a child; developing trust and bonding. Details the damage done by "caregiver roulette." Author explains how bonding is the most important aspect of early childhood development, not intellectual stimulation. However, early bonding improves future learning in school. The only weakness of this book is that the author focuses mostly on the impact of non-parental care for babies and toddlers with little emphasis on the ramifications for older children and teenagers. The reader will be convinced that caring for one's own child is the most important career a mother or father can pursue, and that there is no comparable substitute.
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Millions have been here before. Millions will be here after you. Everyone has their own experiences, but we eventually share one common bond -- we all make it through these restless teenage years, and somehow, we all survive. We all walk that thin line between adult and child trying to steady ourselves on our own two feet. We all have bad-hair days and broken-heart days and I-wish-I-were-somebody-else days. We all stress out over school and work and learning to drive and looking good and fitting in. We all learn the hard way that people and moments don't last forever and that pimples are just a part of life. We all struggle with friends who get in way over their heads, and we all struggle with parents who constantly bug us about being in way over their heads, and we all struggle with parents who constantly bug us about being in way over our own. We al want to be the most popular, the prettiest, the smartest, the most athletic, and the best and most perfect at everything we do. And somehow, we all make it out alive with great memories, great friendships, and great stories.
BEING A TEEN is one girl's account of her teen years that will help make your own experience a little bit easier. Young enough to remember all the gruesome and hilarious details, but old enough to reflect on those years with a bit of insight, author Diane Mastromarino has filled the pages of this book with her own teen tales, as well as poetry and quotations written by teens and famous authors. It is a book you will learn from, laugh at, and, without a doubt, relate to. BEING A TEEN is the perfect companion, offering the advice you need to hear, the laughter to keep you going, and the reassurance that you are not going through this alone.
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Excited to Read More.......2004-11-16
I admire people that get other people excited about reading. The author, Diane Mastromarino did a wonderful job to get teens wanting to read more and more. Great job!
My teenage years in a nutshell!.......2002-11-19
This is one of the greatest books for teens I have ever read. I lead a girls group in NY and have recommended this book to many of the girls I work with. It is smart, funny, and interesting to read all the vignettes that the author and her friends have gone through. Every teenage girl and every parent, or person that works with teenage girls should buy this book!
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Being There (New Library of Pastoral Care)
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No Greater Discovery for the People of Planet Earth.......2004-01-10
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This book tells us the fascinating history of the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI). In addition, this is a science book, explaining the science that's needed to undertake such a challenging task (a task similar to "hunting for a needle in a cosmic haystack"). Lastly, this is an autobiographical book that profiles the life of coauthor Dr. Frank Drake (born: 1930), the first person in human history to use a radio telescope to search for other civilizations in space and who is now known as "the father of SETI." (The other coauthor of this book is best-selling author Dava Sobel).
What struck me when reading this book (first published in 1992) was Drake's unyielding enthusiasm for the strong possibility of discovering signals from an extraterrestrial civilization. In fact, he states, "This discovery...I fully expect to witness before the year 2000." The fact that a signal has not been detected "simply mean[s] that we [have] not looked long enough or hard enough."
Here's just some of what you'll learn about when reading this book:
(1) Project Ozma (performed in 1960) which was "the first modern radio search for extraterrestrial signals of intelligent origin."
(2) The creation of the Drake Equation in 1961 which is a "formula for estimating the number of advanced intelligent civilizations" in the Galaxy.
(3) SETI and the Soviets.
(4) Interstellar travel versus interstellar radio communication.
(5) The intriguing WOW! signal which was detected in 1977 (a signal that has never been repeated and is the best evidence for extraterrestrial intelligence).
(6) A radio message sent out by Drake and others in 1974 to hopefully be detected by other intelligent civilizations.
(7) What will happen if signals are detected and the profound significance of such signals for the people of planet Earth.
In addition, this book has, what I call, a "SETI glossay". Here, you'll find a list of defined terms that are unique to SETI.
Also, there are three appendices. In these, you'll discover that there has been nearly sixty projects or searches (up to 1992) for signals since the first project of 1960. As well, I was amazed at how many respected scientists from many disciplines were/are connected directly or indirectly with SETI. Some names include Carl Sagan, Freeman Dyson, Francis Crick (Noble Prize winner), Stephen Hawking, Fred Hoyle, and Linus Pauling (two-time Nobel Prize winner). From seeing these names I thus have to agree with Drake when he says that "SETI is considered mainstream science."
There are thirty black-and-white photographs located near the center of the book. Many are photos of those people who have been or now are deeply involved with SETI.
Finally, the SETI Institute (located in Mountain View, California), as this book explains, was founded in late 1984. Its "mission is to explore, understand, and explain the origin, nature, prevalence, and distribution of life in the universe." As well, this institute has a website making it possible for people who have internet access to stay up-to-date with what's happening in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
In conclusion, if you can obtain a copy of this unique book, you will discover that "SETI is...the most technical of scientific subjects, and also the most human."
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Interesting reminiscences of a SETI pioneer.......2003-10-22
Forty-three years ago, astronomer Frank Drake was the first to conduct a search for radio signals that might be evidence of an alien civilization beyond our solar system. He has remained active in the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) ever since. Drake founded the non-profit SETI Institute, whose Project Phoenix is the most powerful of the current radio astronomy searches.
This accessible book, co-written with journalist Dava Sobel, is partly an autobiography and partly a non-technical survey of SETI. Drake tells both stories in an easily readable way. If you want a painless introduction to the radio astronomy search, this is as good as any.
An unexpected dissapointment..........2002-01-15
Buying this book, i was expecting to a) read about SETI b) be introduced into thinking about the possibility of extraterrestrial life in new ways, as this book, written by Frank Drake one of the men responsible for the establishment of SETI would be a great source..
Instead: i wound up reading an autobiography disguised under the title "Is there anybody out there", a title which also disguises the fact that Drake spends more time and pages writting about the problems he encountered setting up SETI than SETI itself. Not to mention that he uses all 300 pages of his book to praise himself in a way that makes you yawn once you become familiar with the mechanism it is written. Indeed for a book that tackles an otherwise super interesting and controversial issue the book is boring. It's totally devoid of any humor and any attempts at such are further contributions to boredom. What's even more interesting is that for an author who clearly believes there is intelligent life out there he uses but a mere 2-3 pages to dismiss any accounts of aliens having already visited earth, recently or not so recently..2-3 pages to dismiss that? Hmmm, makes you wonder...In the end, after having (thankfully) been through with it i wound up thinking more about the motives behind Drake having written it than the book itself. Buy something else on the subject. Blindly.
vital reading for earthlings.......2001-02-05
i was surprised when i found this book in a second-hand book store. I had heard about it and wanted to read it, but knew it was out of print. Being a SETI enthusiast (running the seti@home screensaver 24/7), this book elegantly took me through the step by step advances in the field, told by the man himself, Frank Drake. What really got me hooked was the Sagan-like simplicity of the book. I urge anyone and everyone to read "Is Anyone Out There?". Highly insightful and very objective. (made me even go out and buy an amateur telescope!)
Great Introduction to SETI.......2000-04-27
This book explains SETI to the average person very nicely. The fact that is written by Frank Drake, the person to conduct the first search for extraterrestrial life in the universe is a great bonus, because you know it written by a person who understands the subject, inside and out.
Frank Drake is the person that the Drake Equation is named for. The Drake Equation a simple formula for calculating the change that other intelligence life in the Universe Exists. How you decide to plug numbers into the equation is where all the debate on this subject is conducted.
Great book. Get it if you can find it.
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A Novel Approach: Being There (Novel Approach)
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Presence, the sense of being there in a mediated environment, has been applied to describe the user experience when interacting with advanced media interfaces such as virtual environments. Why examine the concept of presence? There are compelling practical and theoretical reasons. The definition of the construct of presence is of particular interest today because it has the potential relevance for the design and evaluation of a broad range of interactive and non-interactive media and applications in several areas such as medicine, entertainment, education and training. An enhanced sense of presence plays an important role in technologies such as the video telephone, high definition television (HDTV), 3G portable phones, home and arcade video games, the World Wide Web, and more. The book examines the different facets of the concept of presence. It begins by noting practical and theoretical reasons for studying this concept. Different theories of presence are identified and a detailed description of the concepts included in these conceptualizations is presented. Then, existing research about the factors that encourage or discourage a sense of presence in media users as well as the physiological and psychological effects of presence are outlined. Finally, suggestions concerning possible evolutions of this concept allowed by the diffusion of ambient intelligence and 3G portable communication are presented.
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